Programa de ações afirmativas na UFSM: o ensino superior público sob o olhar de seus gestores

Abstract

This monograph presents a study made at UFSM about Affirmative Action’s Program. The basic question in this work is: to what extent may the program Affirmative Action’s implementation at UFSM contribute to a democratic public higher education managing? This research’s main objective is to comprehend the Affirmative Action program’s implementation and its contributions to a democratic higher education managing. In order to understand this process of implementation, it is needed first to apprehend the globalization and the social exclusion, and then it becomes more accessible the understanding of democratic point in the Brazilian social, historical and educative context. Beyond that, those presuppositions are basic to analyze the Affirmative Action’s program in the south of Brazil, emphasizing the process of implementation, access and permanency apprehension at UFSM. I am assured that this investigation is justified because it will corroborate in the formation and improvement of teachers, as well as in the comprehension of Affirmative Action’s program, mainly in what concerns the Reforma Universitária3. Based in these presuppositions, I tried to better understand how the process works at UFSM, being supported by provosts from UFSM. So this monograph is divided into three chapters, the first is “Políticas Públicas e Gestão no Ensino Superior: Discutindo compromissos sociais”, which discuss the globalization and the social exclusion phenomena, thinking of the Brazilian reality that is deeply marked with racial segregation and cicatrices, and presents some considerations about the democratic process and the cotes panorama in the south of Brazil. The second chapter “Ações afirmativas nas IES: o caso da UFSM” broaches the implementation of access and permanency policies. The last chapter, “Programa de Ações Afirmativas no olhar dos gestores” analyzes the data got through dialogue with some provosts from UFSM. There were great discussions in the Affirmative Action’s study field, what increased the number of searches that are conducted in this area. The university configuring itself to a place where there is the construction of identities, also needs to develop a role of mediator in the process of citizenship construction, to that the participation of teachers, managers, students and the community is elementary, this combined action enriches the planning and allows better actions facing the schooling diversity.